Monday, September 21 at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU, with Jagdish Bhagwati, Douglas Irwin, Ambassador Susan Schwab, Leo Gerard, John MacArthur & Jeff Madrick
Intelligence Squared US (www.IQ2US.org), the Oxford-style debate series, an initiative of The Rosenkranz Foundation, today announced that the first debate of the fall ’09 season will take place on Monday, September 21, 2009. The resolution, Buy American/Hire American Policies will Backfire, will be debated by six leading economic experts at the NYU Skirball Center in New York beginning at 6:45 PM/et.
Speaking for the motion will be Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor for Economics and Law at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Joining Mr. Bhagwati is Douglas Irwin, the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and Ambassador Susan Schwab, who served as the United States Trade Representative from 2006-2009 and was President George W. Bush’s principal advisor on International Trade and related issues.
Speaking against the motion is Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers. He will be joined by John R. MacArthur, the President and Publisher of Harper’s Magazineand Jeff Madrick, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former Economics Columnist for The New York Times. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
Through an annual series of 10 live Oxford-style debates, IQ2US brings together experts and audience around public policy and cultural issues. In fact, the live audience participates in each debate by voting on the resolutions at the top and bottom of the debate evening.
John Donvan, correspondent for ABC News Nightline, will moderate.
Media are invited and should contact Eileen Murphy at eileen@eileenmmurphy.com or 917.913.2233 to be added to the press list.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYU, is located at 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)
Contacts:
For Intelligence Squared US
Eileen Murphy, 917-913-2233
eileen@eileenmmurphy.com